Forecast Center Observation
| Date | 2021-09-19 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Jeff Moskowitz |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
Transitional Zone: Winter is not far off with current snow levels above 4,000' - it is time to put on your avalanche eye balls and look critically at terrain in your favorite zones. -Where are early season slabs most likely to form in the terrain (wind loading and cross loading)? -What type of anchoring exists…
| Date | 2020-04-06 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Grant Wilson |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
South couloir packed with 1-2feet of fresh storm snow. Skied the upper couloir (from summit ridge) which joins the main couloir. Snowpit observations confirmed windloading of the recent storm snow (ranging 4-12in depth). The storm slab sat on 3ft of well bonded ice/granular snow. Performed a ski cut before my run, which popped a 40ft crown. Because there were…
| Date | 2019-03-30 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Ryan Tansey |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
A friend and I spent three days skiing Kalhabuk Mountain in the Brooks Range (Wiseman, AK). Since there’s no Brooks Range observation page and I’ve received a number of questions about the conditions from EARAC folks, I figured I’d post our report here. The skiing was phenomenal: great spring corn on eastern aspects and 6-12 inches of re-crystallized powder on northern aspects. We dug…
| Date | 2018-12-06 |
| Location | Cordova |
| Observer | Gareth Brown |
| Avalanche | N |
General Observations
Attached below is a pit dug on Lower Loveland Basin on Tuesday. In a few places that I have dug below 4000 feet I have found the second rain crust down to have quite a clean shear (SC-Q1) on this pit. Above 4500 feet the snow structure is different and the rain crusts wouldn't be…